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At le have (Continued from Page 1), pig and a South Carolina law en forcement agent--kothing. "At least, the demonstrators have a sense of humor," the policeman saild. That was one of the few humorous incidents. The demonstrators called anybody who was on the ramp "fascist," even some reporters, who tried to claim their innocence. Also among the crowd were several faculty and ministerial sympathezers. One teacher, who asked that his name not be men tioned because of possible reprisals from the administration, said he thought that the students had- finally done the right thing. A USC Baptist Chaplain said he was at the protest because he thought it was his duty to be with the students in their time of need. Another faculty member, who had tried, in vain, earlier to per suade the protesters to vacate the building "before the police start busting heads," watched in dismay. "Let's go!" came the order and the police moved in to'arrest the group. They began to lead them down the stairs in the Russell House. Suddenly there was some shouting and confusion in the direction of the hallway beside the information desk. Two policemen came back into the lobby pushing a girl who was screaming for them to give her a chance to walk. Two more policemen appeared holding a boy. His shirt was torn from his back. A second boy, Robert Baldesari, who said that he, the other boy, whom he identified as Craig Johnson, and the girl whose name he did not know, had entered the Russell House by the side door near the Undergraduate Library and walked up to the hall by the in formation desk. He said that they were standing there watching when the police began to move the group down stairs. One of the police spotted them and shouted "What about them," according to Baldesari. He said they ran and were stopped by the police. Baldesari said that as they were being led downstairs, Chief Campbell released him and the girl after they had told him that they were not among the original group. Johnson was led along with the original 37 downstairs through the kitchen and out of the service exit where the bus was waiting to pick them up. A crowd of about eight hundred shifted from the front of the Russell House to the exit where the bus was parked waiting for the arrested 37. They were every where; on the walls, on the building and in the lot. Someone suggested that they sit down and block the bus. About 120 people placed themselves in front of the bus. The policemen gathered in small conferences. The crowd broke into a chant of "Kent State, Kent State." Camp bell said, "We're going to have to move them out. There are more ways than one to move them. We've tried to be reasonable." He then picked up a walkie talkie and called to the headquarters, requesting a bullhorn. Behind the line of police, the group on the bus was telling some people directly outside the bus to be peaceful. One student said that he thought the situation would turn into another Kent State. Another said he was willinrg to stay to the end no matter what. One bearded individual then stood up and asked why should they stay in front of the bus when the :37 inside the bus had been arrested at their own discretion. He received a mixed reaction. Three people from the crowd were let aboard the bus to ask what they should do. The three returned, saying only that the group on the bus did not South Tovw stoves on1 Stoves and sinks have been ordered for every other floor in South Tower. They will be installed on a trial basis according to Douglas I. l"itzgerald, director of auxiliary services. South Tower Is the first residence hall to get stoves. Fit zgerald asid that the Ironing rooms will be convertid Into kitchens with "stoves, double sinks, disposals and cabinet space." Pots and pans will also be supplied. He said that Julianne Lewis, past president of South Tower, deserved credit for getting the stoves approved. The University and South Tower are to share the expense, according to Fitzgerald. astde sense want the crowd to act violently. This furthered the confusion amidst the crowd. The crowd started standing up, looking directly to their left. They saw the National Guardsmen -marching toward them. The crowd booed the guardsmen. A group on the roofs and standing behind the demonstrators cheered. One student who had been trying to provoke the police, spat on one officer's face. The officer did not react. Strom asked 'that those who wanted to be arrested please move to the right. "No to the left," a student shouted. Several more people talked to the group, including one of the arrested 37. Some pleaded with the group to move, others announced their plans to stay on. In one final play, Strom asked that the crowd move. Nobody moved. He then told them that the bus and the police were coming through. Reporters and other uninvolved people moved out of the way of the line of police. The police started to move. They were reinforced by National Guardsmen. The crowd, peaceful, moved backward as the police moved forward shoving some people with their billie sticks. The authorities were hit by some cans and rocks. Out of the crowd a young man rushed to put a bottle under the bus. One highway patrolman tried to stop the individual but only succeeded in breaking his stick. Of building t McNai (Continued from Page 1) patrolmen to move in and clear out the dissidents. McNair said he was advised that every means available to the University was used in trying to persuade those who had taken over to disband. McNair said he was advised that every means available to the University was used in trying to persuade those who had taken over to disband. McNair said that he was notified that the group had taken over the Russell House and "had locked and tied the doors." When asked how the patrolmen entered the building to arrest the students, he said that the door was unlocked and the patrolmen went up the ramp through the main entrance. McNair said that although' those people who were arrested in the Russell House might have been students in a student union, but "there are state statutes against taking over a building." The governor said that he was notified that some "forty plus" were arrested and that they would Rally (('ontinued from Page I) The rally began with Thiele's rendition of "The Times They Are a Changing," Bradford announced that the rally was to be an "open forum and that expression of all shades of opinion would be welcome. First to speak was a black student who was identified only as David. "We know that we are being intimidated not because we have long hair and wear buttons, but because we're black," he said. He said white students did not care when three black students were killed in Orangeburg several years ago. 'All you want," he said, "you want to be able to smoke marijuana. Go cut your hair, you rer to get trial basis Miss Lewis said she began trying to get the stoves approved the first of March. "Our ironing rooms were ideal as they have windows to help the venilatlon," she said. The residence hall had ac' cumulated excess money and is .putting $6000 into the kitchens, according to Miss Lewis,. The stoves will be placed on the 8 odd floors. "There are some conditions," Vitzgerald said. "All the hot plates must go and the china and silver ware must be returned to the cafeteria." He also said some way had to be worked out to warn students If the stoves were left on. monsi of hu He achieved his goal, and the bottle broke under the wheel of the bus. Another patrolman grabbed the youth and pushed him against a car. Several other policeman held the man and pulled off the angry patrolman. The man was hauled off to the bus. The tension in both the crowd and the military and policeman ranks started peaking. Some guardsmen started pushing students very hard and, in return, the students threw some more rocks. No more arrests were seen. A few shoving matches were originated but none resulted in anything. Slowly, the bus, led by the authorities, went out from behind the Russell House, passed by the Business Administration building and entered Bull Street. Getting on Bull Street, the bus came to an abrupt halt. It was overloaded, so some people had to get off of it. The scattered crowd did not regroup but, from a distance some rocks were thrown at the other National Guard buses. With the crowd dispersed, the bus roared away. More and more people gathered about as the National Guardsmen boarded their busses. As they left, they were followed by jeers. The crowd's attention turned to the policemen. The crowd followed the policemen up Bull Street, down Green Street to their cars. The crowd gathered around the policemen's cars and for a minute akeover Lr was be tried in the magistrate court for trespassing. McNair said that he was not aware of their reasons for taking over the building. McNair said that considerable damage was done to highway patrol cars by persons kicking and beating on them. He said that he did not know if any 'patrolnen or other persons had been injured but he said that several bottles and other items were thrown. According to McNair, SLED chief J.P. (Pete) Strom was hit on the top of his helmet by a,piece of concrete. The governor praised Student Government efforts, saying that they acted in a highly responsible manner and "responded in such a way that I would hope they would respond in that position." McNair said that he had met with Student Government officals earlier in the day and he added that they were very cooperative and interested as to what was happening on campus. "I hope that it will remain quiet at the University," the governor said,'"and I would like to impress on students to stay from such begins wit put on a shirt and pair of pants and Sol Blatt is not gone mess with you. II you're white and clean cut, you're free." He was given a standing ovation. Broadwater urged the students to persevere in their un derstanding of their "total ob jectives." He said the students ;ra tors Lmor it seemed that the patrol cars were not going to be allowed to move. However, when the police did get in their cars the crowd moved aside. The cars slowly, then faster, moved off. Many protesters kicked and beat on the cars. One car stopped and a policeman pretended to get out. The crowd started to run. Smiling, the policeman got back in his gar and drove off. As the final car drove by, some of the crowd followed, hurling both rocks and insults at the speeding cars. Parts of the crowd, which was unsympathtic, left and other sections turned to discussions with their peers. One young lady sat on a wall and said, ."I wonder what's going to happen tomorrow?" Spear could (Continued from Page 1) because he felt Student Govern ment support might help keep radical activity at a minimum. Spears said he lost faith in Student Government's power to advised activities and avoid them." McNair said that it was reported to him that approximately 90 per cent of th' student body attended classes yc-,terday and said he had been urging students to attend classes today. Fears co (Continued from Page 1) 5:54 Someone in the crowd spots the National Guard. About 50 guardsmen soon appear from the back door of the Russell House. Unarmed. 5:45-6 Students try to get others to let bus through. 6:02 An emotional girl says the arrests went peacefully and were voluntary. She asks the sitters to leave if they don't want to be arrested. From the bus come yells of "stay nonviolent." 6i:08 Barbara Herbert who has been arrested, comes from the bus to the students, repeats that the arrests were nonviolent, says there will be a rally Friday at noon on the Horseshoe. 6:11 Bradford asks the crowd to h .song were acting in the "finest tradition of university students," but reminded the group that "there are rules." The several speakers called for nonviolence. One student carried a sign reading. "Stand up for your Coutry--not against." An American flag waved from the top ol .the sign. Strong arm of s lost curta, curtail trouble when students occupied Russell House and refused to leave. At that point, he publically disavowed the situation. "We gave them speakers, wb gave them the flag, we gave them use of Russell House, we gave them Student Government backing," Spears said. "But they were after nothing but a con frontation." While Spears and the other students were confering, several hundred students milled outside Russell House, and one door was bashed in. At least one policeman was there all the time with the students occupying the Russell House yesterday. An unidentified campus security officer watched the protestors nfirmed ' leave. 6:15 Chief Strom warns the group. 6:19 The order is given to move foward, as reinforcement guardsmen arrived. The bus moves forward slowly. On board, persons flash peace signs. 6:20-6:25 A bottle breaks on top of the bus. A youth breaks a bottle on the right rear tire. He runs, into the crowd, pursued momentarily by a portly, puffing plain sclothesman. The pursuer gives up. He smiles. Another person is forcefully put on the bus. 6:25 The bus scrapes the pavement leaving the parking lot. The crowd cheers. 6:28 Ringed by police, with a path cleared by guardsmen and police, the bus pulls away, followed by three buses filled with guard smen. 6:3() Wayne Seal, the governor's press secretary, huddles with several students. They complain of an instance of brutality. Seal urges them to report it. 6:31l Police cars move out on Green Street. Students hiss. 6:40 Police are gone. - I,arry ('agle, The ae Flag pole scuffle faith ii troL come in and just stayed with the door or the information desk. He admitted that he was no longer checking ID cards. Challenged by one striker as to whether or not he should be there in the building .he replied that he. was a student too--in criminology. Later he was advising the students still in the building on how easy it is to be guilty of assaulting an officer or resisting arrest. Students occupying tp Union building came there after the rilly on the Horseshoe and asked Russell House Director, Dave Phillips for the keys to the building advising him that they were taking over the place. Phillips said that he gave the keys to them. The doors of the Russell House were then locked, but after awhile they were reopened. Several administrators and faculty members tried to persuade the protestors to leave the building before they would be arrested and trouble would begin. Board of Trustee member, Michael J. Mungo, even offered to the dissidents that he would accept a list of their grievances and would request a Board of Trustees meeting to discuss the problems of the campus. Volunteer Services Director, Bob Alexander, who tried to help relieve the tension by acting as a channel through which the students and administration could communicate, noted "This is a needless confrontation." Asst. to the Dean of Men Jerry Nix asked the students to leave the building saying, "You are hereby notified that what you are doing is in violation of regulations." The statement was signed by Vice President for student affairs C.H. Witten. Nix notified the students that they had all been temporarily suspended, but no one was notified individually. Student Government had en dorsed the strike and was sup plying marshals, but SGA President Mike Spears announced that while the SGA would still support a memorial service today in the USC chapel for the four students slain at Kent State, it would not support the occupation and the nx - Woody Baird SG tble of the building and was with drawing along with its marshals. The statetnent warned that if-the students did not leave the building they would be suspended. About 130 students remained in the building's main assembly hall in an strike meeting. About an equal number milled around in the building. About 4:30 studenk body vicepresident Jim Bifdford told about 1,000 students massed outside that if they did not clear in 30 minutes Governor Robert E. McNair would have the area cleared. The same message was given inside and all but about 50 students left. The students had reserved all the building until 7 a.m. today and the doors of the building were locked only for a little over an hour. After one of the requests to leave or be arrested, one of the oc cupants replied. "well, we're staying." Jon Kraus. state president of the ACLU and a USC professor told the occupants that the University had given up and turned the mat ter over to the governor. "The governor is offended because he gave an executive order to clear the building and they're still here." Arrested I (ontinuewd fromi Page 1 Also John F. Bistrick, William T. McD)owell. Stephen L. Martin and Paul A. Gumm. Also. Andrew A. Skarbek. ('antey H. Wright. Robert P. O'Keefe. Anthony Herman. Ernest Livingston and Gregory R. Merrick. Also. Michael J. Wallace. Craig F. Johnson, Michael K. Wise. and Ralph B. White. Also. Robert G. Howe, Elayne Scot. Laura Lee Wilson. Judy Hallstrom. Carol L. Waggert. Barbara A. Herbert. Carol V. Heall. Alma N. Singleton. Linda A. Bradshaw and Lynn S. Zorack. Tlhose arrest ed and not identified as students: Steve Essley. Edward C. Bryan. William P. Martello. James K. Adlam. and Mark lsaacs. Also. Ronald 1). Cherry. G. P. Sammon. Patricia Gear and Brett Bursey. -Tommv PrIe, ople